14/05/2024
I just submitted my acquittal to Creative Australia for the Fellowship Funding I received over 22/23. The funding gave me time to research and implement relaxed performance practises and how to make spaces more accessible. Also to further research ways to make music further accessible to d/Deaf and Hard Of Hearing audiences. Thank you to Asphyxia and Kirri Dangerfield. Over these two years, myself and my partner in art and life Bec Matthews of Fat Fruit created 5 new works, some were duo, ensemble and some with communities like Flying Fruit Fly Circus. We have two new works in the pipeline including F**k Christmas, which we're all hoping you can come to Malthouse Theatre. And we toured existing work The Rainbow Tree (thank you Performing Lines) and The Legend Of Queen Kong. We even recorded The Legend Of Queen Kong for release in 2026 alongside a Feature Film/Visual Album, accessible to d/Deaf and HOH audiences (thank you to the Homos (Cerise Howard, Gen Bernstein and Jo Franklin). A HUGE thank you to the Creative Australia panel, this Fellowship was a life line for me and grants like this shift culture and help artists create sustainable practises and actually survive. I have no interest in the mainstream, my passion is on the edges, creating work that disrupts, dismantles and celebrates voices of the LGBTIQ+ community. What I'm saying is that I love being an Indie artist and I love being afforded the opportunity to take risks with art, to be allowed failures along the way and sometimes to create something truly wonderful and transcendent. This Fellowship helped make that happen. Thank you to the Australian tax paying public, that's you! I had two financially stress free years of making, researching and realising...If you are interested at all in any of my perspectives, finding or provocations on inclusive art making and and presenting, PM me. One final big thank you to Bec Matthews for being alongside me the whole way!
